Will this pseudo-scientific nonsense soon be abandoned by the YEC community? There's a competing 'hypothesis'. The southern continents were never joined at all and their similar vegetation is all down to 'pumice rafts' during Noah's Flood. Maybe. But WHAT about Genesis 1:9-10 (NIV)?"And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good." If the water was in one place, was the land in one place too (most literalistic YECs think this is what the verse is saying)?

Don't give them ideas! He seems to have been postulating rafts of vegetation, like the pumice rafts, rather than made of pumice. It requires that the vegetation was "torn up" rather than flooded, and floated for a year while remaining viable. I'm sure we've heard it all before to explain life-after-flood, never mind replacing plate tectonics.

Brian Jordan wrote:Don't give them ideas! He seems to have been postulating rafts of vegetation, like the pumice rafts, rather than made of pumice. It requires that the vegetation was "torn up" rather than flooded, and floated for a year while remaining viable. I'm sure we've heard it all before to explain life-after-flood, never mind replacing plate tectonics.

Yes, you are right. I thought he was suggesting vegetation floating on pumice rafts but on re-reading apparently it's simply vegetation rafts.